Re: [SOLVED] Re: Shell Script Help

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Mon 06 May 2019 at 10:56:47 (-0700), Patrick Bartek wrote:
> On Mon, 6 May 2019 13:08:05 -0400 Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 09:41:58AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > > On Mon, 6 May 2019 10:24:24 -0400 Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:  
> > > > for dir in ab*/; do
> > > >     name=${dir%/}
> > > >     enfuse --output "$name.jpg" --compression=97 "$dir"/*.jpg
> > > > done  
> > > 
> > > Typed in as a single line with a semi-colon at end of enfuse command
> > > and before done to keep it from locking up, generates error "enfuse:
> > > failed to open "ab*//*.jpg: No such file or directory. But it's a
> > > beginning. Time to pull out my 400 page Unix shell programming book.  
> > 
> > Most likely it means there weren't any matching directories wherever
> > you ran it.  The ab*/ glob will be used literally if it doesn't match
> > any directories.
> > 
> > If you want to check for that, you can add a test.
> > 
> > for dir in ab*/; do
> >     test -d "$dir" || continue
> >     name=${dir%/}
> >     enfuse --output "$name.jpg" --compression=97 "$dir"/*.jpg
> > done
> > 
> > You said you had twenty-something directories named ab01, ab02, etc.
> > So it should have matched unless you ran it from the wrong place,
> > or unless you lied about your directory names.
> > 
> > But nobody would EVER lie about their directory names in a shell
> > programming question.  Oh, no, never.
> 
> Silly me.  I failed to substitute the correct dir name letters in the
> script for example "ab" prefix I origninaly posted. Didn"t even notice
> until I started troubleshooting 3 hours later. That's what I get for
> reading the list a 6:00am. With semi-colons properly placed for a one
> liner, it works.

You don't really need to place semicolons anywhere for a one-liner;
the system does it for you. I've cut and pasted Greg's example into
the command line, and then pressed Uparrow (for history recall):

$ for dir in ab*/; do
>     name=${dir%/}
>     enfuse --output "$name.jpg" --compression=97 "$dir"/*.jpg
> done
bash: enfuse: command not found
$ for dir in ab*/; do     name=${dir%/};     enfuse --output "$name.jpg" --compression=97 "$dir"/*.jpg; done

and there's your one-liner.

Cheers,
David.